In conversation with Gwen Shapira, Co-founder of Nile

In a podcast episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover, CTO and Co-founder of Orb, discusses with Gwen Shapira, Co-founder of Nile, the complexities and innovations in multi-tenancy and serverless Postgres offerings for SaaS applications. They focus on Nile's approach to virtual tenant databases and the challenge of balancing flexibility, isolation, and resource allocation when managing mixed data blocks for diverse customer needs. Gwen shares insights from her extensive career in software engineering and data architecture, including her experience with Oracle, MySQL, Hadoop, Kafka, and Confluent. The conversation highlights the central role of customer data models in B2B SaaS and the ongoing trade-offs between dedicating databases to individual customers versus employing a multi-tenancy approach, emphasizing the evolving demands on reliability and scalability in modern database solutions.

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